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Wordpress Plugin advice for rotating graphic/video

stanwelks — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:37:51 -0800

I want to post a graphic that will randomly rotate and when clicked, will link to a page with more info.

1.) Can someone please recommend widget or plugin that does this?

2.) Is there a widget or plugin that will also do this with videos?

Thanks!!!!!!

Masking Joomla install directory

mikecron — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:42:43 -0800

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Hi all,

I'm starting to work with Joomla and have followed some steps to mask the installation directory that I put Joomla in. I installed Joomla to my domain.com/j/ directory, and have set up my .htaccess file to make it appear as though all pages are coming right from the root: domain.com/

Internet Explorer seems to be the exception, however. All other browsers have no problem accessing the site (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.) but IE returns a DNS error and says it can't connect to the domain.

Here's the content of my .htaccess file:

#These first two lines might already be in the file - no need to repeat
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

# remove "www" (this may be optional)
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.roninstudio\.net$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://roninstudio.net/$1 [R=301]

# Redirect to the Joomla root folder
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?roninstudio\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(index\.html)?$ http://www.roninstudio.net/j/ [R=301]

# Only apply to URLs on this domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?roninstudio\.net$

# Only apply to URLs that aren't already under folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/j/

# Don't apply to URLs that go to existing files or folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all those to insert /j
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /j/$1 [L]

Does anything here jump out at anyone as to why this might be the case? I cobbled these rules together based on various postings from the net -- my understanding on this topic is rudimentary, so I'm hoping someone else has a better grasp on this.

dvipng

spradlig — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:12:41 -0800

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I am new to DreamHost and I switched because I need to install MathTex. The creator of MathTex is on DreamHost and the package appeared better than my previous shared hosting package. I'm still deciding if I'll stay with DreamHost and this would go a long way.

MathTex (http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.html) requires a latex package and dvipng. DreamHost already has latex but not dvipng. In order to compile dvipng you need libgd and libkpathsea. Both of which are available at /usr/lib and /usr/include. However, the configure command for dvipng consistently returns the error can't find/use libkpathsea.

I have not put dvipng under the texmf tree (not sure where this would go but I assume top level). I have simply tried to compile under one of my domain folders.

Thank you, in advance, for your help

Anyone know of a solution?

phpThumb

jkofoed — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:34:09 -0800

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I'm trying to use phpThumb to resize some gallery images. It just doesn't do the resize.

http://www.jasonkofoed.com/wedding/index.php?album=test

Does anyone know if this works or not?

WebSVN and SSPI authentication

iacchi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:42:51 -0800

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Hi,
I've set up two repositories on a domain and I want to use a WebSVN installation to view them. The users are different for the two repos, so I'd like to setup a per repository authentication in WebSVN. I've tried to follow the instructions in the installa file (modify .htaccess and adding the two repos in config.php) but I get an Error 500 on the server if I try to open a page.

Did anyone reach to use this authentication method with WebSVN here on DreamHost?

phpbb not showing confirmation code

kelly7552 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:22:33 -0800

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When I use the 1 click install, the confirmation code doesn't show up on the registration page, meaning no new people can register. Other fourms suggest that it might be a php GD Library isn't installed. Does dramhost install the GD library?

file upload problem file to large

Griffo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:32:29 -0800

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Hi, i have added a file upload section to a admin only part of a website.

I have also updated the php.ini file for multiple domains(http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini), yet i still have problems.

I am trying to upload audio(mp3) no larger than 10M.

Has any one had similar trouble.

Thanks

Griffo

Script wanted

planetphillip — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:18:52 -0800

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Hi,

I am looking for a script that will allow visitors to a website the ability to "post" jokes and tag them with themes etc. Each joke would be rated by other visitors.

The site would allow visitors to see the latest jokes, hightest/lowest rated jokes, jokes by tags and a search facility.

Ideally, I wouldn't want users to have to register and login to post jokes.

Does anybody know of such a script or place where I might find one?

TIA
Phillip

Phillip
http://www.planetphillip.com/
Commentary and Analysis of Sci-Fi Single Player First Person Shooters

Up and running with Rails

dennisstevens — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:45:21 -0800

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I am trying to get Rails up and running in my domain.

I followed the instructions at http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Rails

I am able to get the default index.html to come up.

I am able to run db:migrate and run and work.

Check out http://www.dennissstevens.com/personalkanban

When I click on About your application�s environment I get a 404 error.

When I create a basic page I get a 404 error.

Any thoughts on how to actually get a rails app running in a subdirectory of my domain.

Help please. Dreamhost support considers this debugging my application. Getting the default smoke test running isn't debugging my application.

how do I update the path for MT?

derfner — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:40:25 -0800

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My blog (for which I use Movable Type) has been moved to a new server, and now when I try to make posts, I get the following error message:

>"Error making path
>'/home/.festus/derfner/joelderfner.com/blog/2009/10': mkdir
>/home/.festus: Permission denied at lib/MT/FileMgr/ Local.pm line >105"

I wrote DreamHost about this and they said:

>The path there, is no longer valid. You'll need to update the path
>there, so that instead of:
>
>/home/.festus/derfner/joelderfner.com/blog/2009/10
>
>you have:
>
>/home/derfner/joelderfner.com/blog/2009/10
>
>The .festus directory is left over from the old server, and should
>never be used.

But the thing is, I have no idea how to do this, and DreamHost doesn't support third-party applications.

Can anybody help me fix this? I'm going crazy not being able to share my every thought with the entire world.

multiple rails apps [passenger?]

mattforni — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:32:06 -0800

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I've been working with RoR for about two years now, but have never really deployed an app to a server, since I merely coded and my boss handled that part. I managed to deploy my app, but as part of it I want to run demo versions of other apps I've written for work. Is there a way (with dreamhost) to deploy multiple RoR apps? I tried passenger but obviously on a shared host there's no way I can access the proper config files to get it running. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- matt